21
Nov 2015 ~ 9 Kislev 5776
Torah
Parashah Vayetze ~ “He Went Out”
B’re’shiyt
28:10 - 32:2 RSTNE p 28
48th
B’re’shiyt
Thanksgiving
is coming up and most of us were taught that Thanksgiving was - a nice friendly
sit down and give thanks meal.
You
may want to watch: Matthew Nolan’steaching on Thanksgiving from 14 Nov.
**
I
want to share some information Matthew Nolan taught during Sukkot. It is very very important.
As
long as I have known, people have looked at the book of Yechezkel and got to
the end of the “book” and thought this was a prophecy about the third temple
being restored - complete with offerings and animal sacrifices.... But let’s look at some things Matthew points
out...
Yechezkel
(Ezekiel) -
Yechezkel
- teaching Sukkot 2015 - by Matthew Nolan
Yechezkel
is a collection of 13 scrolls written by the prophet himself - to deliver these
messages to bring Yisra’el to teshuvah.
Yirmeyahu
(Jeremiah) 32:10-12 p 376
Talks
about how scrolls were sealed and dated... and this is how the scrolls of
Yechezkel were found... rolled separately - all dated by the prophet - but one
that was dated by a scribe - b/c the date was probably taken off ... by the finders... as near as we can
tell....
That
is the date in Yechezkel 1:2 - We know this because it is written in 3rd person
so it is easy to tell. This is in scroll
# 13.
The
13 Scrolls of Yechezkel
# 1. 8:1-19:14 - The present state of Yisra’el,
temple abominations, wicked slain, the glory departs, opportunity of regather,
Judah and Jerusalem’ guilt
6th month, 1st day, 5th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile
#2.
20:1-23:49 - Yisra’el, Judah and Jerusalem rebellious
need for teshuvah - and opportunity for restoration.
5th month, 10th day, 6th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile
#3. 24:1 - 25:17 - Proclamation
against surrounding territories
10th month, 10th day, 9th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile
#4.
29:1-16 - Proclamation
against Egypt
10th month, 12th day, 10th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile
#5.
26:1- 28:26 - Proclamation against Tyre and its King (metaphor of
hasatan)
?month, 1st day, 11th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile
#6.
30:20-26 - Proclamation against Pharaoh
1st month, 7th day, 11th year
#7.
31:1-18 - Egypt cut down like a tree
3rd month, 1st day, 11th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile
#8. 32:17-33:20 - Egypt assigned to the pit
? month, 1st day, 12th year
#9.
32:1 - 32:16 - Lamentation for Egypt
12th month, 1st day, 12th year of
captivity
Egypt fall came before the fall of
Jerusalem
#10.
33:21 - 39:29 - Fall of Jerusalem
10th month, 5th day, 12th year
PROPHECIES CLOSE HERE - no more after
this point.
There
is a problem with the dates of Scrolls 9 and 10. Jerusalem was destroyed by fire in the 5th
month of the 11th year of Yehoyachin’s exile
What
we know is a copy-iest (scribe) probably messed this up.
11 = ayin, shin, tov, yod
12 = ayin, shin, tov - with NO yod.
#11.
40:1- 48:35 - To shame Yisra’el into repentance - and offer an
interim constitution - if both houses repent then there is a new temple with
sacrifices etc going on... UNTIL Mashiach comes. BOTH houses refused.
“This
scroll was regulated to the back of the Volume as an appendix. = a conditional offer of national restoration
contingent on both houses repenting.
This would have been an interim constitution “until the time of
restoration when the Seed would come.” “
This is after 13 years of silence
from YHWH.
10th month, 4th day, 25th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile.
#12. 29:17 - 30:19 - Babylon will
plunder Egypt
1st month, 12th day, 27th year of
Yehoyachin’s exile.
#13. 1:1-2 - 7:27 - Priestly commission of judgment and wrath
that all of Yisra’el has rejected the interim constitution of YHWH, and he has
set for the sword of chapter 5.
~
So
what this means is - there is no third temple with animal sacrifices - because
at the time that prophecy was given - both houses of Yisra’el refused to do
Teshuvah and did not take up YHWH on his offer for an interim constitution
until the Messiah came....
So
I invited you to read Yechezkel in the order the prophet delivered the scrolls
to the princes of Yisra’el.... and understand what he was actually saying! AMEIN!!
Baruch hashem YHWH!! :)
******
Brad
Scott - B’re’shiyt Study
study
guide p 56
we
are finishing.... verse
B’re’shiyt
1:22
“And
God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
“Vay-y’varek ‘otam
Elohiym le’mor p’ru ur’vu umile’u
‘et-ham-mayim bay-yam-miy ve’ha’oph
yirev ba’aretz.”
p
57 in study guide
UMILe’U
Translated as = to fill the earth or
fill the waters.
Some say - it is “replenished”... the
angelic beings existed before man... and according to IS 14 - and 1/3 of angels
fell with him - and roamed the earth....
from
Hebrew root Mala = to fill something to overflow... more than full...
Joshua
3:15 “over-flows”
translated
as fill, fulfill,
and
a couple times translated as “replenished”
also
the word translated into “consecrated”
based
on another definition = satisfaction, accomplished
(see
scripture listed on p 57)
=
to fill the waters and the seas...
“pleres”
= Greek = fill to abundance (Not about
ending - full)
Mattityahu
15:37
Acts
6:5 - full
2
Yochanan 8
Mattityahu
5:17 “fill”
= Hebrew idiom... to destroy and
fulfill the law are idioms....
B/c
He obeyed the law - he filled it up.
**
p
58 in study guide:
B’re’shiyt
1:23
“Vaye’hiy--erev vaye’hiy
voqer yom cha’mishiy.”
“And
there was evening and there was morning day fifth”
“And
the evening and the morning were the 5th day.”
Vaye’hiy
-- erev
= And there was evening
vaye’hiy = and there was
voquer = morning
yom = day
CHa’MISHIY = 5th
Chumash
= is name of a particular volume / commentary of first 5 books... = the five
even
though this is a number, it also has a literal meaning.
cha’mishiy
= armed, prepared, to be ready
#5
= grace and mercy
see
p 59 in study guide on #5
***** *********
Torah
Parashah Vayetze ~ “He Went Out”
B’re’shiyt
28:10 - 32:2 RSTNE p 28
1. Yaakov goes out from Beer-Sheeva toward
Charan.
He
stops and sleeps on a rock - and sees a ladder/stairway with heavenly malachim
(angels) ascending and descending and YHWH stood above it and blesses Yaakov -
like He blessed Avraham and Yitzchak.
B’re’shiyt
28: 13- 15
2.
Yaakov gets to Charan and finds Rachel at the
well.... and she takes him to her father’s (Lavan’s) house.
3.
Yaakov
makes a deal with Lavan to work for the privilege to marry Rachel - 7years...
he then gets stuck with Leah - and has to work 7 more years for Rachel....
4.
Billah
- Rachel’s maid and Zilpah - Leah’s maid are also thrown in there as mothers of
Yaakov’s children.
Wikipedia says - The Testament of Naftali, part of the Dead
Sea Scrolls, says that Bilhah and Zilpah's
father was named Ahotay. He was taken into captivity but redeemed by Laban,
Rachel and Leah's father, who gave Ahotay a wife named Hannah, who was
their mother. Rabbinic sources (Midrash Raba, and elsewhere), on the other
hand, state that Bilhah and Zilpah were also Laban's daughters, through his
concubines,[2] making them half-sisters to Rachel and Leah.
5.
Yaakov has lots of children
LEAH
|
ZIPAH
(Leah's servant)
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BILHAH
(Rachel's servant)
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Rachel
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Reuben (1)
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Gad (7)
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Dan (5)
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Joseph (12)
|
Simeon (2)
|
Asher (8)
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Naphtali (6)
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Benjamin (13)
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Levi (3)
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Judah (4)
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Issachar (9)
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Zebulun (10)
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Dinah (11)
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6.
B’re’shiyt 30:25-27 p 30
Yaakov
asks Lavan to let him go back to his home country... and Lavan changes the
requirements many times.
7.
Yaakov makes a deal about the sheep and
goats... the all white ones are Lavan’s
and the speckled goats and the brown sheep are Yaakov’s.
8.
and
Lavan started to not be happy with Yaakov
31:1-2
9.
31:3
YHWH tells Yaakov to take his people and things and leave and go home.
10.
They leave - and Rachel steals the house
idols of Lavan...
11. Lavan chases
them down and searches for his idols...
12.
31:32 - Yaakov declares death for anyone who
stole the idols and he doesn’t know it was his beloved Rachel.
13.
Lavan and Yaakov make a covenant and Lavan
leaves and goes back to his home.
*
I’d
like to go back to the beginning of this Parashah and look at
B’re’shiyt
28:10-22
p 28
Yaakov
has to be exhausted.
Now we know that Rivkah is worried about Esav
killing Yaakov... so look what she did in B’re’shiyt 27:46
Yitzchak
told Yaakov - in 28:2 “Arise, go
to Padan-Aram, to the bayit of Bethu-El your eema’s abba; and take a wife from
there from the daughters of Lavan your eema’s brother.”
So
Yaakov leaves... finally he’s away from his twin brother. This must be a relief and also sad.
remember:
Change - even good change - is difficult.
So
Yaakov gets to a “certain place” and he is so tired that he uses a stone for a
pillow.
28:12 - and Yaakov has a dream of a ladder “set up
on the earth and the top of it reached to the shamayim” and “heavenly malachim”
(heavenly angels or messengers) were “ascending and descending on it”
and
28:13 - YHWH stood above it.
What
does this ladder represent?
~
In
the Menorah - on one side we have three lights that stand for
“B’re’shiyt
- bara - Elohiym” = YHWH
On
the other side we have
“ha
shamayim v’et ha aretz.” = earth
What
is the connection between the two?....
the
same things as the ladder ....
.....
the Aleph Tov - the shemesh - the Light of the World.
Y’shua
haMashiach.
He
is always the connection.
Interesting
that YHWH meets Yaakov here... in this place.
What
is so unique about this place?
After
all Yaakov has just been given the bachor (first born)blessing.
But
how much sense does this make? He gets
sent away by his parents?
Remember
he can’t know what we know... we’ve read ahead...
He
knows he is blessed - he is the one to inherit all his Father has....or the
majority of it anyway...
And
so it would stand to reason that he should be made the leader of the house and
all the people that have followed his grandfather Avraham, and his father
Yitzchak...
-
Yaakov
has a purpose - and he is extremely
important.
-
I
am guessing he thought he knew what his life would look like...
and
then he gets sent away.
He’s
in the desert somewhere - on his way to his mother’s family.
Somewhere
between Beer-Sheva and Charan.
He
has to feel all alone in the world.
I
think he has to be wondering what in the world he is supposed to do. He thought he knew... but then life
happened...
Does
this sound familiar?
Do
you come to places where you thought you knew what your life was supposed to
look like... and then - life happens ... and it isn’t looking like you thought
it would?....
So
for most of my life - when things happened and messed with how i thought it was
supposed to be - my response was anger.
So
i am guessing that is perhaps where Yaakov is.
This
comes through in the story...
He
has a most amazing dream of heavenly angels or messengers ascending and
descending on a ladder that represents the Mashiach Himself....
When
Yaakov wakes - he knows something amazing happened...
and
he sets his pillow /stone up and poured oil on it.
He
calls the place Beth-El - the house of
Elohiym.
BUT
then... is where the - perhaps anger - shows up.
Keep
in mind that YHWH has just spoken the same blessing over Yaakov, that he spoke
of Avraham and Yitzchak - in verses 13-15....
and
what Yaakov does...
well
some say it was gutsy - maybe it was angry?...
maybe there was nothing left in him to even have the energy to be
angry... maybe he was where Y’shua said those people HE spoke about in the
beatitudes in Mattityahu 5 were.... so
broken and on their knees - knowing that there is nothing good in them.... begging YHWH for provision and life...
What
does Yaakov do?
Yaakov
challenges YHWH, the El of his fathers...
Yaakov
tells YHWH that if YHWH will go with him on his journey and provide him bread
and a safe return,
-
Then
YHWH will be known not just as the El of Avraham, and Yitzchak, but also the El
of Yaakov.
~
On
a side note recently i listened to a couple who were legitimately concerned
about the choices their daughter is making.
- choices that aren’t healthy or safe.
BUT more than that - choices that don’t line up with the faith of the
parents.
I
can get that this is very concerning and deeply troubling...
One
of the things i said - besides acknowledging their efforts in raising her and
the legitimate concern for safety... I
said... well, as difficult as it is for you - she has to make the faith she
decides to have - her own.
They
weren’t particularly blessed by this.
They do not understand Torah.
~
But
the point is - the text doesn’t say that - despite how offensive this might
sound - it doesn’t say that YHWH was bothered in the least.
wow.
So
what happens in the days ahead - is Yaakov must deal with Lavan - who is full
of deception. - just how the world is
for all of us.
But
YHWH never leaves him... In fact, He blesses and blesses Yaakov.
Now
we read Torah- and read the stories of the covenants YHWH made with His
people.... and we can understand how we
can be part of that...
And
we can look at the world outside - the amazing beauty of the earth and
heavens... and recognize He is there...
But
at some point - we have to decide if WE are going to walk in that covenant of
the Word.
In
many ways - we here at HLM have left the pagan practices of what we grew up
with and are learning what EXACTLY we believe and exactly WHO we serve and HOW
to serve HIM.
We
did it stomping mad sometimes and we did it with tear stained cheeks in
others....
So
where are you in your faith journey?
Some
where between Beit-El and a pagan land??
Remember
that YHWH met Yaakov in that desert place “between”...
He
will meet you there too...
The
key is - when the ladder shows up - you don’t ignore it. :)
Remember
the pure in lev (heart) ??
Mattityahu
5:8
p 680
“Blessed are the pure in lev: for they
shall see YHWH.”
If
you are clean on the inside - have done Teshuvah - you will see YHWH in your
life all around you.
And
when we truly see Him all around us...
we won’t just walk in the covenant of our abba’s... but our own... and when we figure it out.... we will RUN.
amein.
